Archives for
February 2013

The "Harlem Shake" may be so two weeks ago, but this YouTube video gives you the opportunity to watch seals shaking their fins and a walrus doing rhythmic sit-ups. Now that's how you rejuvenate a dying viral trend -- get some rump-shakin' sea mammals...

Hackers took over Burger King's Twitter account on Monday. The cyber tricksters changed the fast food company's avatar and name to "McDonalds" and sent a McFlurry of questionable and offensive tweets. The Twitter mishap isn't all bad news for Burger ...

Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss passed away at the age of 80 Monday morning. He was hospitalized last week with an undisclosed form of cancer. Buss purchased the Lakers, along with the Los Angeles Kings in 1979. He later sold the NHL team, but ma...

Hackers pulling off a Hamburglar 2.0 move on Burger King's Twitter account livened up a ho-hum Presidents' Day for the Internet. Twitter reacted with its usual 140 character McBites of snappy commentary, turning a whopper of a social media oopsie tur...

While Craigslist offers a unique way to find goods and services online, there are several setbacks to the online classifieds platform: Scams run rampant, spam ads are frequent and the minimalist design lacks user-friendly appeal. Many still flock to ...

We're in the final countdown to the Academy Awards, and everyone is making predictions about who will take home which golden statuette. There's no shortage of entertainment at the Oscars, from the Red Carpet fashion to the tearful acceptance speeches...

Earlier this month Google held two top secret Glass Foundry events in NYC and San Francisco. Developers who attended the closed-door events were required to sign pretty extensive non-disclosure agreements promising to not share what went on inside, w...

What's up, Monday? Why you got to show up all surprise like? Even if you got to sleep in and catch up on The Price Is Right because it's Presidents' Day, it's still Monday and no amount of daytime television can fix that. Help your brain ease into th...

Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney is holding his own against an angry mob of Beliebers by, what else? Changing his Twitter name to Justin Bieber and mocking the pop idol mercilessly. And while Biebers' fans are outraged by the social networking prank...

If you're ever feeling lost in the vacuum of cyber space, don't despair. The web is woven tighter than you might expect -- in fact, you're probably just a few clicks away from your homepage. Apparently, no two pages on the web are separated by more t...

If you're feeling sluggish today, just head over to Starbucks and get yourself a Quadriginoctuple Frap. It'll give you 48 shots of pure caffeine, and will only cost you $47.50. A now, what we imagine, very buzzed Beau Chevassus created the drink at a...

Ubuntu announced earlier this month that it would be bringing its Linux-based operating system to mobile phones later in 2013. Now, it looks like we might see the OS on tablets, as well. A countdown clock has appeared on Ubuntu’s website, along with ...

Here at Mashable we're unashamedly geeky. Because of this, we like to sport as much geek "flair" as humanly possible. We have taken a look at some keychains perfect for nerds, featuring designs ranging from robots to retro gaming. SEE ALSO: 10 Unicor...

China now has the world's most active Android and iOS smart devices, surpassing the U.S. for the top spot, according to a new report. Flurry, a mobile-analytics firm, estimates that the East Asian country will have 246 million devices in its installe...

Sometimes snow flakes just gets in the way. Those slippery death traps will manage to land you on your butt every time. Unless you're Ronnie Shalvis, and you flip and glide over the icy tundra like a gymnastic Zamboni. Shalvis shows off how he jumps,...

Outlook.com officially launched Tuesday, marking the demise of its predecessor, Hotmail. Nearly seven months after unveiling a preview of the email service last July, Microsoft announced the end of its beta run in a blog post. Microsoft, which acquir...

This cat is single-pawingly fighting on behalf of the technology revolution. Because like many of us, this kitty is so over the CD-Rom overlord and vows to end its evil dictatorship of computer-land. We get it, CDs are so 2001. Clearly this feline is...

Samsung's upcoming flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, will be announced on March 14, several outlets claim citing unspecified sources. First, Mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin said on Twitter that a "big announcement" is coming March 14. SamM...

Another day, another press shot of HTC's upcoming smartphone, the HTC One. Unlike the first leaked photo, this one also shows the device from the back and reveals it will be available in at least two color variants: black and silver. Recently, a rumo...

In an unusually candid interview aired on CBS over the weekend, Microsoft's co-founder and current chairman Bill Gates praised the company's investments in Windows 8 and Bing, but said Microsoft is still not doing enough to innovate. "Windows 8 is ke...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Dr. Miguel Nicolelis says the brain cannot be re...

Nerdist Industries and AMC announced a cross-platform relationship today that will bring YouTube and broadcast television one step closer together. The nerd culture media company will show bonus footage from AMC’s live Walking Dead after-show, Talkin...

Imagine a way to learn piano that combines the enjoyability of Guitar Hero with the effectiveness of Rosetta Stone. That's the basic concept of Playground Sessions, a software product that officially launched Monday. Playground Sessions has been in d...

Google may be at the center of the search universe, but today's Google Doodle celebrates a man who taught the world, "You're not at the center of the universe." Born Feb. 19, 1473, Nicolaus Copernicus was a mathematician and astronomer, best known fo...

Pierre Valade and Jeremy Le Van met while working as user experience designers at Foursquare and decided to partner up on a couple side projects. One area they were interested in was improving calendar applications, but they didn't want to devote the...

Google's stock hit $800 a share in early trading Tuesday for the first time in the company's history. Google's stock had passed $700 a share in early September for the first time in nearly five years, but it crashed below that the following month aft...

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